Samsung launches Exynos 1080 as its first 5nm chipset

South Korean electronics behemoth Samsung has launched its 5nm-based next-generation midrange chipset for smartphones called exynos 1080. On the camera front, the exynos 1080 can support up to 200mp single camera or dual 32+32mp sensors. It can also handle videos that are shot in up to 4K resolution at 60fps. On the display front, the chipset can go 90Hz or Full Hd+ panels at up to 144Hz refresh rate. While not anything fancy for flagships, these are good numbers for a mid-range chip. The chipset uses an octa-core CPU configuration with a triple cluster design where there are four cortexa78 cores sat next to cortex-a55 cores. Of these, the performance cortex-a78 core runs at 2.8GHZ, while the other cluster of three cortex-a78s is clocked at 2.6GHZ. The chipsets are expected to arrive in early 2021, with Samsung already confirming that this exynos chipset will eventually debut on a Vivo smartphone.

Huawei to use liquid lens in its flagship phones chinese handset manufacturer Huawei is reportedly in the final stage of testing the liquid lens for flagship phones which is supposed to largely improve image stabilization and focus times. A new tech report monitored in china says that Huawei is in the final leg of the testing process for its liquid lens, which is expected to greatly accentuate image stability for an improved visual experience for users, reports Gizmochina. recently china National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) approved an important camera module patent related to the Liquid Lens. According to the information, the patent includes a moving motor, camera placeholder, and electronic hardware to move the liquid lens. The new lens will primarily be used for the telephoto cameras, with Huawei also looking to launch other products that would take advantage of this technology. As per the report, the liquid lens technology is expected to be deployed for the telephoto camera first so that instead of moving the lenses, the module will alter the shape of the liquid through varying voltage so it focuses the light.

Mediatek unveils 5G chipset Dimensity 700

Fabless semiconductor major mediatek has unveiled its new dimensity 700 5G smartphone chipset, a 7nm Soc designed to bring advanced 5G capabilities and experiences to the mass market. The addition of the dimensity 700 to mediatek’s dimensity family of 5G chips gives device makers a full suite of options for 5G smartphone models – from flagship and premium to mid-range and mass market devices – making 5G more accessible for consumers everywhere. Jc Hsu, corporate VP and Gm of mediatek’s Wireless communications business Unit, said, “With our expanded dimensity portfolio we’re bringing the latest 5G capabilities to every smartphone tier so more people can enjoy 5G experiences. The dimensity 700 has an impressive mix of 5G connectivity features, advanced camera capabilities like night shot enhancements and multiple voice assistant support, all in a super power-efficient design.” The dimensity 700 packs advanced connectivity features including 5G carrier Aggregation (2cc 5G-CA) and 5G dual SIM dual standby (dsds), giving users access to the fastest speeds and 5G-exclusive Voice over New radio (Vonr) services from either connection. On the processing power side, the chip integrates two Arm cortex-a76 big cores in its octa-core CPU and operates at up to 2.2GHZ.

Lava launches Flip feature phone at Rs 1,640 domestic handset brand Lava recently launched a feature phone called Flip, which comes with an iconic flip design, for just rs 1,640. The feature phone is available in two colours — red and blue — across outlets and on Flipkart and Amazon. The Lava Flip comes with a 2.4inch display along with a polycarbonate body and an expandable memory of up to 32Gb. The phone is military-grade certified and comes with a premium 360-degree transparent packaging. The Lava Flip supports dual SIM and is embedded with a 1,200mah Li-ion battery supported with the super-battery mode which lasts up to three days on a single charge. The phone features a VGA camera, blink call notification Led on the top and also provides a provision of auto call recording. The device is equipped to support incoming texts in 22 languages and also enables users to type in seven languages, including english, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Gujarati and Punjabi. The other features of the phone include an Instant Torch, Wireless Fm with recording, number talker and contact icons.

Chinese company patents smartphone with octa-camera setup

Smartphone manufacturers are constantly

raising the bar and level of innovation with each passing year. A few years back smartphones only had a single camera. but in recent times, a triple and quad camera setup is all but common, especially in flagship models. Now, a chinese company might be pushing the bar even higher as it patents a smartphone with 8 cameras on the rear. According to a Letsgodigital report, a chinese brand called Lens Technology recently filed a patent for a device with an octa-camera setup. For those unaware, Lens Technology is a brand not known for smartphones, but rather it supplies to other Oems like Apple, Samsung, and Huawei. The company has also supplied the display for the Apple Watch. As per the report, the patent shows some futuristic design for the smartphone, with a full body screen on the front, which also houses what appears to be a physical button, while no notch can be observed from the patented images. Arriving at its most notable aspect, the rear features a total of eight camera sensors, with two sensors on each corner of the smartphone. Furthermore, each of these pairs also houses an Led flash in between.

Vodafone Idea working with OEMS, lending companies to make smartphones affordable

Vodafone Idea’s marketing director Avneesh Khosla recently said the telco is working with original equipment manufacturers (Oems) and consumer finance companies to make smartphones affordable for its customers in India. Vodafone Idea also wants to ensure that smartphones reach its last-mile customer, Khosla said. Vodafone Idea, which recently rebranded as Vi, recently said that it entered into strategic partnerships with key players in the areas of Learning & Upskilling, Health & Wellness, and business help to offer benefits to its customers. Khosla said that these strategic pacts with help the cashstrapped telco to create new revenue streams from various sectors. The telco has partnered with upgrad, Udemy, Pedagogy, cure.fit, 1mg, mfine, eunimart, and others, and plans to onboard more partners under each of these areas to offer more digital products and services in the coming times.

Facebook rolls out Vanish Mode on Messenger, Instagram

Social media giant Facebook has rolled out Vanish mode on its messenger and Instagram services that will let users send text, photos and voice messages which will disappear once seen, and the chat window is shut down. According to a report by The Verge, currently, the Snapchat-inspired Vanish mode will work on individual chats and not group chats. Vanish mode is available for messenger in the US as well as some other countries. Some users may have already received Vanish mode in the chat settings on messenger. On Instagram, some elements of Vanish mode are already part of the core direct messaging feature set. As per the report, Vanish mode is similar in ways to messenger’s existing secret conversation mode that lets you enter an end-to-end encrypted chat that’s saved only on your device, although the new model is designed to delete anything sent forever once it’s been viewed.

PUBG Mobile reveals new India plans PUBG mobile has finally revealed their plans of a re-launch in India but players should expect a new ‘tailored’ experience within the game. So far, there is no word about the exact date of when the game will be made available but the company seems to be ready with an elaborate plan to relaunch it in India. PUBG corporation revealed their plans to tackle the issues that got the game banned in the first place as well as some long persisting concerns regarding the games immense popularity among younger audience. PUBG corporation, creator of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG) and subsidiary of South Korea’s KRAFTON, Inc., announced that it is preparing to launch PUBG mobile India, a new game created specifically for the Indian market. The company also revealed plans to provide a secure gameplay environment alongside investments to cultivate local video game, esports, entertainment, and IT industries. PUBG corporation claims that the new game is built with privacy and security of Indian player as a top priority.

Beyerdynamic T1 and T5 third-gen headphones win German Design Award

The third generation of the T1 and T5 hi-fi headphones from beyerdynamic combines the legendary Tesla technology to create a superb sound quality in a flawless design. This also convinced the jury of the German design Award 2021: The T1 and T5 were honoured with the “Winner” award for outstanding design quality in the category “excellent Product design – entertainment”. The German design

Award is the international premium prize of the German design council. Its goal is to discover, present and honour unique design trends. The German design Award, which was established in 2012, is regarded as one of the most renowned design competitions worldwide and is highly respected in professional circles. The “Winner” award for the closely related T1 and T5 headphones honours the outstanding and exemplary implementation of design achievements within the context of a specific category.

Lamborghini comes up with luxury range of headphones

Luxury sports car brand Lamborghini is also joining the ranks of other sports car makers that are teaming up with electronics brands to launch their branded luxury range of hearable products. According to some media reports, the new exclusive range of Lamborghini collection includes the master & dynamic mw65 active noise-canceling wireless headphones along with the mw07 PLUS true wireless earbuds. It arrives with the iconic designs and branding of the Italian sports car maker. The headphones and the earbuds also incorporate luxury materials and build quality to offer a stylish feel and finish like using tan leather on the mw65. As per the report, the mw65 headphones will be available in multiple variants including silver metal/light grey/ yellow Alcantara, black metal black/yellow Alcantara, and black metal/black/grey Alcantara colour schemes. For those unaware, Alcantara is an Italian technical material that is widely used in the cars from Lamborghini. Similarly, the mw07 PLUS TWS is also inspired by Lamborghini sports cars’ striking finish.

Telegram launches multiple pinned messages, live location and other new features messaging platform Telegram has launched a host of new features such as multiple

Pinned messages, Live Location 2.0, and an easy music Playlist sharing option. Apart from this, the messaging app has rolled out channel Post Stats for the group or channel admin. Telegram has also released a set of Halloween stickers for Android users. multiple pinned messages feature will allow members to pin multiple messages at a time. The channel or group admins can only pin multiple messages off their audiences. Another feature that has been rolled out is the Live Location 2.0 feature, which is an update to the previous feature. Telegram has also released a dedicated new feature for the music lovers caller the Playlists. This feature would let the users send multiple songs as a whole playlist. So when you send multiple songs to a user, it would be converted to a playlist. The messaging app has rolled out a dedicated feature for the group admins and it is called channel Post Stats. This new feature would let the admins monitor the performance of specific messages shared in terms of views and the number of times it has forwarded to other channels or groups.

Google Pay to remove payments on web app, will start charging transfer fee

Google Pay is reportedly set to kill the peerto-peer payments facility on its web app in January and is going to add a fee for instant money transfers. Google Pay offered the ability to manage payments as well as send money from both a mobile app or from pay. google.com. Now, Google has released a notice on the web app that notifies users that the site will no longer work from January next year. “Starting early in 2021, you won’t be able to use pay.google.com to send and receive money from other people. To send and receive money, use the new Google Pay app,” the company informed. While you can still manage payment methods on the web app, peer-to-peer payments will cease to exist. Google also clarified on a support page that the original Google Pay app will stop working in January, reports 9to5google.

Teamviewer Tensor adds co-browsing, mobile SDK and AR

Teamviewer, a leading global provider of secure remote connectivity solutions, recently announced a comprehensive update of Teamviewer Tensor. In addition to the recently announced mobile Software development Kit (SDK), Teamviewer Tensor now offers co-browsing and supports large organizations’ multi-tenancy needs. The current update of Teamviewer Tensor offers greatly improved possibilities for secure and innovative customer interaction via mobile SDK and co-browsing with an integrated chat function. Additionally, Tensor supports large corporations in terms of multi-tenancy and remote work. This includes a security screen feature for the remotely controlled device, improved conditional access regulations, and comprehensive reporting and audits for easy handling of compliance regulations. The augmented reality solution, Teamviewer Pilot, was also integrated into the Tensor platform so that employees can also be supported in the event of hardware problems in the home office, for example. “mobile apps and websites have always been important channels for our customers to interaction with their customers, and maybe even more so since COVID-19 has required less in-person interaction,” said Alexander Post, director product management at Teamviewer.

MPL announces Rs 10 crore in revenue payout to its game developer partners esports platform mobile Premier League recently announced rs 10 crore in revenue for 10 of its game developer partners in just

a year, from November 2019 to October 2020. Game developers and studios publish their games on MPL under revenuesharing agreements with the gaming platform, where developers can start monetising their games via mpl’s cash tournaments and contests. One of these 10 developers, Hyderabad-based Yesgnome publishes its popular cricket clash game on MPL. cricket clash is one of the most-played games on MPL, especially during the recent lockdown, garnering over 41 million gameplays between April and October 2020. Other developers receiving the payout include Qunami, which publishes the Quiz game on MPL, and bornmonkie, which publishes Auto raja. MPL has onboarded over 70 games on its app since its inception in 2018 and has partnered with established as well as independent game developers from across India, opening up a new revenue stream for them to monetise their games. With over 6 crore users in India, game developers find a ready audience for their games on mpl’s Android and IOS apps.

Byju’s launches Give initiative to encourage digital learning for all edtech major byju’s has announced the launch of Give, a part of its social initiative ‘education for All’. The byju’s Give aims to be a people-driven movement that can take digital learning to as many children as possible, giving them a chance at remote learning. citizens are encouraged to donate their old or unused smart devices that will then be refurbished and powered with byju’s content and distributed to children with no access to online education. The ‘Give’ initiative is focused on bringing equal and quality learning for every child as well as addressing another critical area i.e. responsible recycling of old tech. With efforts like byju’s Give, what could have ended up as e-waste will instead get upcycled into a child’s online learning companion. byju’s will be collecting, evaluating and refurbishing these old devices in partnership with cashify, a prominent e-commerce marketplace in India.

Videomeet introduces ‘Playback’ feature

Homegrown video-conferencing platform Videomeet has rolled out an extremely useful ‘Playback’ feature for all its users in its free of cost model. The Playback mode will be a revolutionary content delivery mechanism allowing users to watch the pre-recorded meetings. It enables the host to manage and schedule the entire playback for smooth communication. Participants are made aware that they are being recorded via audio and visual both. The feature is accessible by the host, till his/her account remains valid. recorded videos are directly stored on their devices. It will be highly utilized for recording an office meeting, class, conference etc. The meeting recording feature finds its major utility in education, corporate, healthcare sectors, as Playback feature can be used for creating training videos, to rehash the details of a project, or to take notes on what was discussed. dr Ajay data, founder of the app, said, “We have taken care of all the necessary security aspects in rolling out this new feature. It makes the process of remote learning and working extremely convenient and comprehensive.”

Multitv emerges as front-runner in Indian

OTT and virtual events video tech industry

Video tech firm multitv has registered a strong growth of 100 per cent y-o-y, driven by the massive uptake of virtual and hybrid events and OTT video technology. The video platform-as-a-service (Paas) provider has added 50+ customers across its portfolio in the past six months. Led by a single round of angel funding in 2016, multitv aims to touch $100 million turnover in the next three years. This success is fueled by the adoption of two of its cutting edge products- belive, a first of its kind all-in-one live online events platform and creator, an end-to-end white-label OTT solution. multitv’s belive is a robust and a scalable video platform that is widely used to conduct seamless virtual and hybrid events. It powers businesses to host events like Annual General meetings (Agms), product launches, trade shows, conferences, workshops, webinars, concerts, conclaves and meetings online in a seamless manner.

Kiko TV witnesses 30% month-on-month increase in social commerce channel

Kiko TV, which claims to be India’s first Ai-based short video e-commerce and entertainment platform, has witnessed 30% month-on-month increase in the social commerce vertical. The app, which was launched a few months ago amidst the pandemic, released their in-app shopping feature last month and since then it has

seen a positive upsurge. Supporting and showcasing the #Vocalforlocal and #madeinindia sentiment, Kiko TV provides products only from Indian local vendors. Their aim is to be a one-stop solution for shopping while browsing videos and live streaming shopping. With the social commerce market booming in India and small businesses looking at new ways of reaching out to customers, Kiko TV foresees this as an excessively big market to capitalise and grow in. Live bidding, live shopping, live acceptance solution

Payments technology leader Visa has announced the first successful live deployment of a PCI certified Tap to Phone